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    <body><![CDATA[Z A Recht must love zombie movies.  How could he not? (i'm assuming Z is a he) Plague of the Dead reads like a text version of a movie.  Telling, rather than showing.  The book takes an almost clinical, documenting-camera view on the proceedings which holds all of the characters and the action at ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61538009">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[_Plague of the Dead_ is, put simply, a zombie outbreak novel  similar in many ways to  Max Brooks' spectacular _World War Z_.  (WWZ is told in a series of interviews while _Plague_ follows a traditional narrative format, but the manner in which the plague spreads and the military's fruitless efforts...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52532388">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[OK ... so, it was a nice try. The explanation for why there are fast AND slow zombies was GREAT. But unfortunately, not a whole lot else has great merit. The characters are all cookie-cutter. Every &quot;military&quot; character is the same as the next - and they use A LOT of cheesy jargon like &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62690270">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a stone cold sucker for zombie stories.  I don't care if they're the old school Romero shufflers or the new breed of 28 Days Later style runners, give me a story about the world being overrun by undead flesh eaters, and it makes me happy.  This probably says something very disturbing about me....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76899202">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an extremely exciting, action-filled zombie book! Good character development makes and keeps readers emotionally engaged with the people on the pages. I just pre-ordered book 2 of Morningstar from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.permutedpress.com">Permuted Press</a>. Can't wait to read it!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a solidly entertaining zombie-apocalypse novel.  And for the first 200 pages it's a gripping read, but it stumbles when the story veers away from the plague to some rather silly in-fighting between NSA agents.  The author excels at descriptions of military engagements between soldiers and wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77880300">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What would happen if the Infected from 28 Days Later turned into zombies after they died? That's pretty much what this book asks. A fast-moving virus is infecting people across the world and turning them into cannibalistic and homicidal maniacs. What's worse is that if they aren't killed by severe h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10998988">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not much of a horror fan but for some reason I can read zombie books over and over until the covers fall off.  This was a really fast read but a pretty cool story.  What's always kind of scary about these books is I find the way the authors describe people's mass panic and the break down of big ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62422052">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good book. It's not zombies in the traditional sense, as it is about a virus that transforms you into a mindless raging creature (a la &quot;28 Days Later&quot;)that is hell-bent on biting anyone it can find—to spread the virus. But when they die, they do come back as slow shamblers—the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38632598">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The story was good but not enough scares for me.  I just wasn't in awe of the Zombie's taking over the world.  Too much military and too much surviving, not enough zombie contact.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i'll probably read the rest of this series but the writing is pretty awful.  unless you like zombie books in general, i wouldn't bother with this one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting new take on the zombie menace. One of a number of zombie novels I read all at once, one of the better ones.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Plague of the Dead grabbed my attention and held it very easily for most of the read. The storyline was immersive and the characters interacted very well. I look forward to reading the second installment as well as the third which I believe is in the works. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Decent read if you like zombie books]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Book one of the Morningstar Strain series.  This is a great zombie book.  It was a book I had to talk myself in to putting down to get some sleep.  I would have read it in one sitting if I had that much free time in one block.  I enjoyed all of the different characters; good character building.  Sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8131697">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll admit it right off the bat--I didn't finish this book.  It wasn't because I thought it was &quot;bad&quot;.  It was...fine, if all you're looking for is a global viral zombie outbreak novel with some pretty cookie-cutter characters, run-of-the-mill dialogue, pretty standard progression of event...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34199965">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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